What happens when cofounders stop being polite and start getting real?
OK, there’s nothing impolite in this interview including Voodoo Manufacturing’s Jonathan Schwartz, but there is some critical thinking.
“The thought experiment I’ve always come back to is having a 3D printer at home the size of an oven that can print objects the size of an oven,” he said to FirstMark Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, which is not an investor in Voodoo. “All you have to pay for is raw material. What are you going to make? Consider that Amazon can probably deliver what you need the same day.”
FirstMark Capital wrote a post on Medium, When Will Consumer 3D Printing Become Common? — Hear From Four 3D Printing Founders, trying to figure out what exactly the deal is with 3D printing.
“We’re not yet printing parts on a Saturday morning to fix a wobbly cabinet door and there’s some thought in the 3D printing community that perhaps we never will,” the firm wrote. So they asked four founders in the industry to explain where things are headed.
“It will be interesting to watch adoption of the Mattel ThingMaker,” Schwartz said. “It seems like a hit to me. It will be awesome for kids to build toys from scratch. I think it could inspire a generation of makers.”
You can watch a presentation Schwartz made at FirstMark’s Hardwired NYC meetup on March 8.
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